Re: The Economist on Netscape "hackers"

I was going to ignore this, but I feel verbose today..

I write the letter to the editor, or does someone else want to? One thing I'll need is a brief outline of Damien Doligez's acheivements to support the idea that characterizing him as a "hacker" is not quite right.

Hacker good. Cracker bad. Media distort hacker to bad. Media hype merchants. Media bad. Bad ol' Media. Degauss. Reformat.

Raph (who's wondering if there's something inherent in the media process that keeps them from getting their stories straight)

Reporters. Editors. Owners. Cheers, Mark mark@locahrd.com.au The above opinions are rumoured to be mine.